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Child Porn Sentences

By Corey Rayburnyung

Sentencing Law & Policy (which seems to be having some RSS feed problems for me) has a post discussing the oddities and uncertainties with child pornography sentencing in federal courts:Regular readers may recall some of my recent posts discussing my observations of an extraordinary amount of variation in charging, bargaining and sentencing realities in federal child porn downloading cases.  Two more notable examples came across my desk just today: In US v. Toothman, No. 07-3729 (8th Cir. Oct. 3, 2008) (available here), a panel rejects an Arkansas defendant's appeal of his within-guidline sentence of more than eight years imprisonment following his plea of guilty to one count of knowing receipt of child pornography.  The defendant complained on appeal about the district court's failure to give him any break for his extraordinary physical impairment and extreme susceptibility to abuse in prison, but the circuit court decided the sentence was reasonableness...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).